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No. 23. DAYTON, OHIO, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS COX GOV. GOTHAM BY STORM PEACE PARLEY ENORMOUS CROWD COAL "DROP" IS EXPECTED PROBERS WILL DELVE INTO FUNDFIGURES Investigation of Governor's Charges Begins Monday. Many Witnesses Called.
QUADS SURVIVE; FIRST ON RECORD COLUMBUS, Aug. 28The first case in the history of Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics where all of a set of gundruptets survived was received here by bu-rcau. Mrs. Emidio Carduccl of I.owcllville, recently gave birth to quadruplets. The four boys give evidence of good health.
Their names ore Michael, Leonard, Antonette and Petrochi. Three of five children previously bom to Mrs. Carduecl are dead. BY NOVEMBER FRIENDS HOPE QUEEN MARY JVILL RELENT TO SAVEjlACSWENEY On Her Mercy Depends Life of Cork's Lord Mayor, a Victim of Self-imposed Starvation LONDON, Aug. "3.
Upon the mercy of Queen Mary, friends cf Terence MacSweney tonight pin their last hopes for tho release of the Lord Mayor of Cork before ho dies ef self-imposed starvation in his cell at Brixton jail. A nephew of the lata John Redmond, the inaa whose loyalty and leadership held rebellious Erin together for many years ami saved it for the British crown, was seeking an audience with the queen at Balmoral castle to make a personal plea for the hunger striking prisoner whoso fate is being watched by the whole civilized world. The intcreedcr is Redmond Howard. Rumora that Mrs. MacSweney secretly had been feeding her husband proteids In drinking water, were denied by the chcif jail ASSEMBLES TO HEAR GOVERNOR 200,000 Throng Gravcsend Race Track and Cheer Speaker Tumultuously Candidate Promises Further "Slush Fund" Revelations Essential Features of Campaign Covered in Four Speeches NT.W YOKK, Antf! (Jovcrnor Jnmrs M.
Oox wnpeil liii stump Imttlo for eiht hour in New York City and was Riven the proatcst wcleonio of his ciiinpnixu tour. Four In which ho contiuueil his attack on tha Kepuliliean cninpaign fund and urged a sound industrial readjustment, Piore extensive Americanization work and thfl ratification of the peace treaty, were made during tho day. Thousand, lined every street nlonjr which Mr. Cox passed und cheered hint. At the Gravesend rne trnok ho spoke befurc a crowd estimated at 200,000.
The Governor wound up his strenuous day by attending a dinner Food has been placed near the dying man's pillow; it has been there ever since he started on his hunger strike; he had but to reach out to ppare himself the torture of starvation. Meanwhile Ireland was watching the fate of her latest "martyr'' in a threatening mood. There was no doubt even In the mind of the most sanguine observers that the magistrate's death which is now looked upon as a mutter of hours, would be the signal for violent outbreaks throughout Ireland British authorities are nervous. Disorders are growing in scops and violence. But of equally grave concern to the British authorities was the question of what may happen In l.ondo where popular sympathy for MacSweney has been growing daily, London Irish sympathisers were taking care, after lu bloody ex of party leaders, given by former Representative J.
Fitzgerald. Tomorrow ho experts to attend church and then confer with Democratle chieftains here. physician. WARFARE IN IRELAND IS MOST SERIOUS LONDON, 28. A triangular warfare in Ireland, Involving Sinn l-'ciners, Unionists, and Militarists, was increasingly orcuoying the attention of the British tonight.
Starting with the rioti in Lisbiiin early in the week, resulting from reprisals by Unionist for the murder of Inspector Swan-sey, the trouble has developed various phases and spread to other parts of Ireland. Belfast and Dublin, Queenstown and lesser communities have liecome involved. In some places the fighting took on aspects of a religious war. After a night of rioting in Queenstown order was restored today with the arrival of two British destroyers with 200 marines. The sttvet of Belfast were pa-troled by soldiers tonight to prevent a recurrence of the fighting.
Clashes between police or soldiers and Sinn Feiners Ivive resulted in tho deaths of four more policemen, according to Dublin dispatches. Advices from LorK sain vi Mnn Feiners, on hunger strike for 19 days, wera rrear death. SEEKING CLUES IN GIRL MURDER NEW YORK, Aug. 28. Two nun i known along Broadway "Joe" and "Roy" were being sought by police today to toll what.
if anything, tm.y know of tho case of Blanche Schuh, "girl wife," murdered in a thicket near Cliff-side, N. J. Information furnished by George Harris, a Bronx chauffeur, known as "the Palm Beach Kid," has given investigating detectives several additional clues, they said. Frank Sehulz, husband, was today to the morgug and to the spot W'here the body of his wile was found by 'detectives. Sehulz was deeply affected by the sight of his wife's body and swore to avenge her death.
IDNAPED IN HIS $3000 MOTOR CAR BROOKFIELD, Aug. 28. Kidnaped in his own ViW) motor car by a booze bandit, Otto Switser, wealthy young farmer returned trt home late todav. Switser told rolice he had esraned bv te-aniniri CHICAGO, Aug. Investigation of.
charges by UUll IHVl V'W-'V, J'VDtVVI UtIU dictate for president, thnt the liopublicauH arc raising a campaign fund, will hi' begun here Monday when tlxe V. S. senate snb-eonitniltee ou campaign expenditures resumes its hearings. Lenders of both parfll-s have been subpoenaed by the committee to testify as to their knowledge of the fund, and Republicans are expected to renew their insistence that Governor Cox be subpoenaed. -Whether the- committee will do this was Emblematical tonight.
Congressman Fess, of Ohio, chairman of. the Republican con-isrressional committee, earlier in the week stated he would insist Governor Cox be called before the Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, Republican chairman of the committee, is expected to arrive tomorrow to prepare for the hearing. The hearing will be held in the Chicago postoffice building. The room will hold several hundred neoDle. Governor Cox's charge that the Republicans were raising such a fund fell like a bomb shell on tne committee when it met here last Monday.
Senator Reed, of Mis souri, Democrat, and a member of the committee, toon the initiative (I ONTINIF.D ON PAGE TWO.) IN U. S. ARMY BREAK RECORD WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The ilown-and-outer, or the man who has had a fight with his girl, Is no longer the type 'of man found in the United States army, according to General P.
C. Harris, adjutant general, but instead the service is mawing in men that are looking for a chance to better themselves. More than 15,800 enlistments were recorded last month, breaking all peace-time score's, and. according to officials of the war department, most of the men had a very definite idea of why they wanted to enlist. The queerest reason of all for enlistment, among thof-3 so far catalogued, was given by Wilbur J.
Root, of Ludington, who unblushingly confided to the army recruiting officers that the "Hula Hula" and the ukelele were his prime inducements for enlistment. "I want to see both on the sandy beach at Waikiki," said young Root. But, as he explained, his interest is purely professional. He is a dancing instructor. Root has been went to the headquarters of the Hawpiian department at Honolulu in order to gratify his ambitions.
weVTaWfears menace of reds PARIS, Aug. 28. "Unless Bo-' shevism collapses within, the Russian Soviets will be able to i-epair the damage of their defeat at the hands of Poland within six months and then will be asrain in a nosi- tioa to menace the peace of 'Eu rope, General Maximaillian Wey-gand, who is credited with having been the brains of the recent Polish counter offensive, is quoted as having said on his arrival in Prague, enroute for Paris, according to a Prague dispatch tonight PATRICK NEFF LEADS BAILEY FT. WORTH, Aug. 28.
Patrick M. Neff of Waco, was leading ex-Senator Bailey by approximately 20,000 votes at 9 p. m. tonight in the state-wide primaries for nomination of a Democratic candidate for governor. The returns, showed that Neff would be nominated by a safe majority.
ENLISTMENTS IS Poles Said to Be Drawing Out Negotiations for Military Advantage. DY WEBB MILLER. United Tress Staff Correspondent. LONDON, Aug. negotiations between Russia and Poland have been resumed at Minsk on the basis of the Bolsheviki's modified promises, according to dispatches from Moscow today.
At the same time, It was reiter ated by the Russians that the Polish delegates are purposely dragging out tho conferences In the hope of additional scope ef their military victories before agreeing on terms. "They have rejected our conditions, but have offered nonlterna-tives," the Reds complained. The complete backdown of Russia was expected to result in a more complacent attitude" by the entente. Polish advices reported the Bol-sheviki continuing their drives against the center In the Brest-Litovsk region, but with continued successes for the Poles, The principal fighting appeared to be between Grodno and the east Prussian frontier, where the Reds were making a desperate stand. There were still scattered bands of Russian soldiers north of Warsaw.
According to an oficial statement (CONTINLTD ON FACE TWO.) FIRM POLICY TO SAVE SELF (Special Chl.l tn Thn Pfltr New. Copyright. by I'iiIiUc Letlk'er.) BERLIN, Aug. 28. Germany Is planning an energetic policy to save her unity.
The dangers of dismemberment through inaction in regions like Bavaria and Rhine- land have been brought feharply home to the leaders in Berlin since the revolution. The necessity for action became imperative, since, it was illustrated tho French had en couraged the disruption of German unity and had actually set -out to achieve it through the appointment of a minister to the Bavarian republic." The consolidation op the German reichsland through the. creation of a sort of economic 'olhercin am the realignment of the frontiers of most of the German stales Is the aim of a special conference which will convene in Berlin at the ministry of the interior. Leading representatives of Bavaria, Hesse, Wurtemhurg, Hamburg, Saxony, Silesia. Baden and Thringia have assembled to draw up a plan for what virtually amounts to a new Germany.
It will approach more than ever the creation of a United States of Germany through the conferring upon each state of a greater measure of autonomy than is at present engendered than by any in the confederacy. HUNDREDS OF SHOTS ARE FIRED HUNTINGTON, W. Aug. 23. Several hundred shots were fired today in a rifle end pistol bailie between coal miners and mine guards at Willis Branch mine, near Pax, Fayette county.
State nolice received reports of the sliootinir of Major Payne, a detec tive. They believe that several others were injured, but were un able to gain any definite informa lion of the battle and the casual ties. Reports stated that miners pre cipitated the fight by trying to dnvo the guards from tne mine. The shooting lasted for more than three hours. One miner was ar rested.
In order to avoid further trouble the guards were withdrawn, according to word received at the governors office in Charleston to night GNOME GIVES SIR BARTON HOT RACE SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Aug. 28. Tho record for the mile and three-sixteenths on the Sura-toga track was shattered today by Commander Ross' Sir Barton, the animal stepping the time in 1:55 3-5 in tho fourtli race. sir Jtiarton rival Gnome would probably have won the race in anotner stride, according to many of the spectators and press men.
The- previoaa record, 1:56, was made by Cudgel in 1018. PEDAGOGUES ARE SCARCE IN OHIO MARIETTA, School teaching, as a profession, has po attractions here. When the school board met today to give examinations for positions for the ensuing term, not a single applicant appeared. RESUMED BY WARRIORS SOCIALISTS ASK RECOGNITION OF BODY Resolutions urging recognition of the Third Internationale of Moscow, but with reservations favoring the adoption of tactics essentially American in purport and spirit, were adopted by the Socialist state convention, in session here, Saturday afternoon. These followed lines laid down by a referendum vote recently of the national organization.
The state organization went on record favoring recognition of the Soviet government of Russia, the delegates denying that Bolshe-vism is Socialism. Demand for the immediate cessation of octivities to overthrow- the Soviet government was formally made. Other resolutions demand free speech, right of free assemblage; denounce the. Freeman criminal syndicalism law, passed by the Ohio legislature, April 15, branding it '(class legislation of the most flagrant sort," and calling upon the people to use their influence for the release from prison of Eugene V. Debs and hundreds of companions in prison for alleged violation oi me rpiunage uiw.
The platform, as adopted Saturday afternoon, and which, along with the resolutions, will be submitted to referendum vote of the locals of the state, is a rc-affirma-tion cf the platform adopted in Columbus in December, 1919. It talis upon the workers to unite on the field of production in industrial organizations that will include all workers, skilled and unskilled. The platform declares that "the revolution is now on" and that it "will continue until the industries of the world have entirely passed into control and management ol the workers themselves' and "political forms must change to conform with the new industrial order." The platform also declare-" that "force, violence and lawlessness are not in our program" and counseling the workers to unite to seize the powers of government through orderly, political methods (CONTINUED ON I'AGK TWO.) POLISH AIRMEN MAKE DISCOVERY WARSAW, Aug. 28. Polish aviators today reported the Ilol- rheviki were preparing to counter attack and that they were building fortifications near Grodno in an attempt to make a stand there.
There was a heavy movement of Red trops toward "Drest-Litovsk. "NICK CARTER" MARIETTA, Aug. 28 Rector Boatwright, 18, ended his career ns a would-be "Nick Carter" here today, disposing ofxhis revolver, nickK- pl- te detective badge, and other professional apparatus, after encountering serious opposition from the police of Parkers-burg, and Marietta. After being held at police headquarters for investigation was permitted to sell his weapons ami return to his home at Spencer, Va. FILM ACTRESS GETS DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Aug.
28. --The screen's divorce dome gained a new member today when Lottie Piekford Rupp was divorced from Alfred G. Rupp, New York broker. The film actress charge desertion and non-support. The suit was not contested.
The film actress charged desertion and non-support. The suit was not contested. Mrs. Rupp and her mother. Mrs.
Charlotte Smith, gave the only testimony. "My husband left me and our four year-old daughter and has refused to return," Miss Piekford told the court. "1 asked him to return, avail." Z. delivered a verdict against the the Circuit ronvt and nil-pit rr. Managing Director of Deal crs Association Predicts Lower Prices.
(H fuMU I.tdvu 8rtlc WASHINGTON, Aug. Cashing, managing director of the American Wholesale Coal Dealers' association, predicted today that the price of coal would drop a ton, reaching that price some time in Novrniber. The wholesale dealers, he said, have been expecting a slunfp in prices for several months, "Few of them would May in the market more than twenty-four hours with any quantity of coal," Mr. Gushing sniiL "The drop has been held off by the presence of book orders held by the operators and the steady demand on the local merchants. "There has been considerable competition for coal.
It must be remembered, however, tluit manufacturing plants have laid lu their supply early and the how-holders bought during the spring and early summer. Coal dealers have ordered from three and four sources. When they find their orders are being filled they will cancel the precautionary orders they have been making In the prospect of a shortage. "It will be hard to estimate the amount the price will drop, but I believe It will be as much as ff a ton. There is and will be a of coal when the actual facts dawn upon the trade.
have been condemned for raising the price of coal. They have had little to do with tt. Com petitive bidding at the aiincs hr.H caused the increases." SCORE FACE TRIAL FOR HIGH CRIES CLEVELAND, Ao. Never In thn history of Cuyahoga county has there becjn a time when many persons were uwaiting trial upon a charge of murder ox now. When common pleas court convenes hero for its fail term, September 7, 20 mv.u and two women may face Juries to answei for homicide in either the first or degree.
Among those who will ugain face a jury is Frank Whited, charged with having strangled Frances Altinau Stock-well, a chorus girl, whoso body was found February 1, in ihc rear of rooming house where Whited staying. John W. Joyce, owner of a soft drink parlor, was indicted on a charge of a second degree murder following tho mysterious death of Harold C. Kngy, automobile dealer, on May 8. A drinking party, of which Judge Wm, H.
McGnnnon, of the municipal court, was one, drove dowa town In the judge' automobile- McGnnnon says he left the partv near the square, following which tho shooting occurred Joyce insists that the crime was committed by another mnn whose identity hf says he will discloi-e 01 the trial. Joseph Dell, once convicted of killing his 17-year-old bride, but who was granted a new trial because of error in the proceedings, will again face a jury. RATS "ACCEPTED" BY MOVIE OWNERS MARION, Aug. movies are putting the rats out of business in this, the home town of Warren G. Harding, Republican presidential candidate.
Verner Hicks, proprietor of one of the largest movie houses, enlisted in tha campaign to exterminate rats by offering to accept rat ss an admivion fee. All the youngsters in town and a few grown-ups have been paying their way in with rats. SUFFRAGE DAY TO BE OBSERVED COLUMBUS, Aug. 23. A movement for a nation-wide observance of August 26 as a holiday commemorating enactment of the fed-era! suffrage amendment was launched by Columbus suffragists today.
It was suggested that the day be known as "Susan B. Anthony Day." Messages will be forwarded to other suffrage organizations throughout the country, it was announced. A telegram urging the proposed new nationai holiday may be sent to President Wilson. FATALLY INJURED IN DOUGH MIXER UHR1CHSVILLE, Aug. 28.
James Haffcy, 19, died here today from injuries received when he fell into a dough-mixer in the Quimby Bakery plant. It was necessary to take the machine apart to extricate the victim. The crowd at the police games league of Nations, and his charge cnmpalgn fund "hoped to use the dustrial readjiititment In America. could not hear, so the speech was cut The greatest ovation came at the banquet of New York Democrats at the Commodore Hotel where the demonstration lasted five minutes. Governor Cox answering denials by Republicans of his "slush fund" charge, reiterated his allegation and mid: have pot yet begun to make revelations of the Republican financial plans." Wilson enthusiasts were In large numbers as evidenced by the applause that greeted the mention of lli president's name, Tammany had a largo representation, although Onirics Murphy, "Big Chief," was not on th platform with Cox? W.
ti. McAdou sut on the Governor's right and introduced him here and there were upstate anti-Tammany leaders; backers of Attorney General Palmer were in the front row and Ambassador Joha W. Davis, tho most talked-of "dark horse" nt San Francisco, sat near Cox as did Secretaries Meredith and Wilson of the president's cabinet. On his way to Gravesend, Cox slopped in front of the New York library to make an old fashioned stump speech to a large crowd thnt had gathered there. His fourth speech was made before a group of New York suffrage leaders.
The Governor predicted to them that the vast majority of the "mother of the country would support (CONTINXKII ON PAGE TWO.) pioneehear oldest lawyer FREMONT, Aug. historical address by lion. Basil Meek, 92, oldest practitioner at the bar in Ohio, featured the forty-eighth annual reunion of tha Sandusky County Pioneers' association here today. Log cabins were rebuilt, tallow dips relighted, and many pioneers between the ages of 85 and SI2 recited experiences of pioneer days thnt to men of this sge seem almost unbelievable. In the past year 2 12 members of the society have died.
CHILDREN CAUSE EXPENSIVE FIRE ITHACA, N. Aug. playing with matches, started a fire which caused $10,000 damage to the Havengirth cottage at Freevillc, near here late today. One of the children struck a matdi which Ignited keronsene tank. DECLARE WRONG MAN ARRESTED PAN ANTONIO, Morris Kox.
the abi seaman from the steamship Dryden, who was arrested at Rio as a suspect in the Detroit trunk murder mystery, is not 0. J. Fernandez, the alleged slayer, according to relatives here. The mother of Fernandez, who read the description of the detained seaman said: "He is not my son." I 11 is cheered Cox's pledge to enter the that contributors to the Republican bayonet in bringing about and in I he throng was so huge many to twenty minutes. -rra PRICE BOARD TO REPORT ON ICE, AT EARLY DATE A report of the investigation by the Montgomery County Fair Trice board into tha causes of tha price of Ice In Dayton, will be heard at meeting of the hoard Thursday night, Frank B.
Hale, vice chair-' man, said Saturday. Tho claims of Dayton Ice companies that tho high price of coal necessitated a raise in the price of ico have been investigated. A witness, whose namtf Hale withholds, will ha called at the meeting next Thursday and will endeavor to show facts alleging the price of 80 cents a hundred pounds too high. This witness haa been conducting a private investigation and is not an official of the fair price board, Hale said. The auditor who was aent here by the state fair price commission in response to a letter from the local board, will not make his report to the local commission on his findings after auditing the books of the local companies, but will report to State Fair Price Commissioner Pfeiffer at Columbus.
Members of the local board did not comment on the statement made by Oscar P. Klee, mineral water manufacturer, SI South Beckel street, that ice was selling in West Milton at P0 cents per one hundred pounds, while tho same ice sold here for 80 cents per one hundred. ZEPPELINS WILL CARRY PASSENGERS AKRON, Aug. 28. Two super-Zeppelins, of the largest type ever constructed, arc now being built in Germany for American interests for use in freight and nassencrer- service between Berlin and Sun Francisco, via New York, according to John R.
Gammeter, aeronautical expert of local tire manufacturing company, who has just returned from a business trip abroad. A prominent American automo bile manufacturer and the Ham burg-American Steamship company are financing the project, it is said. They' are expected to be placed in operation within four months. RESTRAINED FROM ISSUING NOTES CLEVELAND, Aug. 28.
An injunction restraining the Standard Parts company, Cleveland's automobile parts and accessories corporation from Issuing $8,000,000 worth of notes, waa granted in the federal courts here today by Judge D. C. Westenhaver, on a petition of several stockholders. The note issue recently was authorized by shareholders at a reorganization meeting. asisea nis periences with a force of "hobbies" a few days ago not start any violence.
SIGNS OF NEW REVOLUTION APPARENT (Special CiMe to The Dull? Nw, Copy-riuht. 1016, rubllf Co.) BERLIN, Aug. Drcs-lau incidents which have Involved anew the German government In difficulties with the entente maybe Interpreted as the aftermath of last week's" troubles Ik Upper Silesia. Ou the. whole they are nothing more or less than a reper cussion of a nation-wide state of feverishness which has manifested itself continually in the last few' months in local convulsions almost everywhere on the map of Germany.
"These me n.erely the first signs of a greater revolution which is coming," is the kind of answer which officials invariably make, to any requests for an explanation events. What happened in Katto- Breslau, tho Saar Valley and even Danzig is likely to happen in: Berlin. Tho government had to issue an order yesterday that military detachments marching through the streets of the capital especially in Unter den Linden refrain from letting their bands play. It is not difficult to read into the significance of such an order. LACK OF LABOR THREATENS FOOD stales, according to ueriey r.
Walke dean of the schol of engi- peering, university or Kansas, in a statement made public mre today, covering the exhaustive study of the country's economic situation. Dean Walker, who is the head of said: "Wt have been prodigal In the exploitation of our natural resources, but the end of this is coming. To become 1 true industrial nation means to further the exten- sion of scientific methods to the broader problems of industry." TUMULTY SPEAKS TO JERSEY CROWD SEA GIRT, N. Aug. his first public speech In years, Joseph' P.
Tumulty, secretary to President Wilson, voiced a vigorous plea here today for the League of Nations, -addressing COO Democratic men and women of Monmouth county. He attacked Senator Harding and other opponents of the league as "alleged statesmen who barter in the future security of the world." HEY, KIDS "Rusty" and "Bub" are Mjming to Who are they Wait and see. You'll liko them, whether "ou'reJ seven or seventy. WATCH THE COMIC PAGE OF THE DAILY NEWS. "Rusty" and from the machine amid a shower of i NEW YORK, Aug.
28. Amer-bulh'ta and fleeing imo underbrush ica's fod supply theratened by a'ong a lonely road wner tneiiacK 01 moor in uie agncuuunu b'indits had driven his car, he said he hid in the underbrush until his captor gave up the search and drove on in his car. While driving up a steep hill, four men leatied from the roadside and halted him with revolvers. They bound his hands and one drove the machine, heading towai-d the research committee of the mid-the Kansas state line. continent section of the American SHERMAN TROOPS SENT TO COAL MINE CHARLESTON, W.
Aug. 28 At the request of Governor Cornwall, a detachment of federal troops at Camp Sherman, near Chillicothe, Ohio, have been ordered by the government Into the West Virginia coal field near Williamson, it was announced tonight at the governor's office- Governor Cornwall in making the announce ment explained that disorders and threatened disorders In that field, coincident with the Willi Brarch disturbances, arc too frequent and too widely; scattered In that mountainous country for the to deal with them with the small police force available and further that several citizens of that region especially at Matewan have been receiving threatening letters re cently. GOLD RUSH COMES TO UNTIMELY ENDi WINNIPEG, Aug. 23. The ''gold rush" to Mile 39, near here, fizzled tonight.
The news, four days ago, that "nuggete" had been found near Mile 39 started a miniature stampede in that direction. Twenty-nine claims were staked in two days and prospectors continued to come until it was learned the four "nuggets" were pieces of jewelry lost by a homesteader. Williii" to Withdraw to Women serve Creditably On Juries in Buckeyedom CLEVELAND, Aug. 28. Women of Ohio are losing no time in availing themselves of their newly-won right to.
vote and all the advantages that goes with it. a Immediately following the proclamation of the Nineteenth Amendment by Secretary of State Colby, a police judge in Akron Give Ladies "Big Chance" "CLEVELAND, Aug. 23. Two women may fight 'tout for election in congress' in the 22r.d Ohio district this falli- if Theodore Burton, Republican nominee, former United States Senator, accepts the proposal of Matthew B. Democratic candidate, made tonight and complies with the condition imposed.
"I've alwavs believed in woman suffrage," said Candidate Exccil. "Now that it is the law of the land, want to see women In congress. So ttrong am I in my conviction that I am willing to withdraw and let my wife and Theodore's fight it out for the chance to the district in the national legislature. "But, Mr. Excdl." is was objected, "Burton is a bachelor.
"All right." was the prompt retort, "let him marry, preferably a Democrat, before November and the offer stands. i volunteered. The jury of women 1 In KmirlitvVv ivnmpn nnnpnrpd in mission to serve on a jury. The judge smiled and tried before them an injury suit against a railway company. The women returned a verdict of $.1500 for the plaintiff.
Srorcs cf women have sent applications to the election board fere for appointment as election clerks ad other fike jobs, heretofore open only to males. The former senator wtien mital..
